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Monday, 13 August 2012

Bill Schanes' Cerebus Art Auction - Last Day!

Your chance to own a piece of Cerebus original artwork ends on today at 6pm EDT. Place your bid now! UPDATE: The auction is now over. The final bids were as follows:

Issue #7 page 6 (1977) - Sold for $407
"This was the last page where I slavishly tried to make everything look
as if it was inked by Barry Windsor-Smith, so it's quite a historical
landmark page in the evolution of my drawing style on Cerebus"- Dave SimIssue #18 page 9 (1978) - Sold for $675

"A good example of my 'pooled shadows' style of inking--everything done
in high contrast sharply defined blacks and luminous whites. Issue #18
was the 'apex' of that style which I used between issues 14 and 23." -
Dave Sim

Issue #19 page 2 (1978) - Sold for $675
"This was the first time that I tried to draw someone I actually knew
into the story -- the girl is based on my sister-in-law at the time,
Karen Loubert. Another good 'pooled shadows' page." - Dave SimIssue #19 page 11 (1978) - Sold for $825

Issue #20 page 5 (1978) signed - Sold for $825"The first 'Mind Game' (there were four in the course of the 300-issue
storyline). The "Mind Game" in this case was that the 20 pages -- when
laid out in five rows of four pages each -- formed a giant picture of
Cerebus. The gray areas in the background of this page were the three
fingers of the giant Cerebus' left hand." - Dave Sim

Issue #20 page 9 (1978) signed - Sold for $825"I was inspired by Neal Adams' 'hidden head' that he did in his Ben
Casey newspaper strip and later in a page of Deadman where the
individual panels formed a larger image -- stealing his trick and
'super-sizing' it." - Dave Sim

Issue #21 page 2 (1978) - Sold for $697
"Another good example of my 'pooled shadows' style in panels 4 and 5.
The super-hero parody issues always sold better than usual, which
generated the rumour that most copies of this issue had been lost in a
truck accident (when the retailers were caught short) and that issue
was, consequently, rare. It wasn't rare, it was just purchased by
different people, leaving regular Cerebus fans having to hunt for their
own copies." - Dave Sim